Marcus Research Library

The
Society's Research Library and Archives is a specialized
collection dealing in depth with the history of Stamford,
Connecticut, from pre-settlement to the present. Its holdings
consists of books, pamphlets, and periodicals (7,800 catalogued) and
500 linear feet of boxed manuscript materials from the 17th century
to the present, (20 completed manuscript record groups, 141
inventoried manuscript collections and other finding
aids).

In addition,
there are 200 bound manuscripts dating from the 18th to 20th
centuries; 18th, 19th, & 20th century maps, atlases, and
newspapers.

Also
included are a 10-volume survey of Stamford's historic
structures, over 1200 vertical files containing information on local
organizations, schools, government, biographies, transportation and
churches & synagogues, city directories, W. P. A. Stamford
and Darien Cemetery inscription volume. The Photographic
Archives are part of the Research Library also.

The library
is designed as a research and reference collection. All material is
available for use on site only. For borrowing, the Ferguson
Library has many books on the history of Stamford available. A work in progress is adding our holdings to the online catalog of the Ferguson Library.